Delete a file

DELETE/v1/files/{id}

Delete a file.

Deletes the file at the provider and in VectorAxis. With a virtual key, only files uploaded with that key can be deleted (403 for another key's file); an unknown id is a 404. The organization's approved-provider policy does not apply, so you can always remove a file from a provider.

Authenticate with a BYOK virtual key or with x-provider and x-api-key; a PLATFORM virtual key is a 400. OpenAI credentials only; any other provider is a 422. Without x-retry-count a failed call is retried up to 3 times on 429 and 5xx.

Authorization

AuthorizationBearer <slug>.<secret>
A virtual key's API key (vk-....<secret>), as Authorization: Bearer. What the OpenAI SDK sends from its api_key. Used by the inference endpoints.
orx-virtual-keyheader
A virtual key's API key in the x-virtual-key header, for clients that keep Authorization for something else.
orx-api-keyheader
Direct credentials: the provider's own API key in x-api-key, with the provider named in x-provider (for example openai). On /v1/messages a virtual key is accepted in x-api-key too, which is what the Claude SDK sends.

Path parameters

idstringrequired
the file's VectorAxis id (vxf-...); the provider's file id is accepted too

Headers

x-providerstring
With direct credentials: the provider x-api-key belongs to, for example openai or anthropic (case and dashes are normalised). Not used with a virtual key.
x-retry-countinteger<int32>
How many times to retry a failed provider call, 0 to 5. Without the header, chat completions, Claude Messages and prompt completions do not retry, and the other endpoints retry up to 3 times. Retries back off exponentially from 1 second and honour a numeric Retry-After. The number made is in the x-retry-count response header.
x-retry-status-codesstring
Comma-separated provider status codes to retry on. Default 429,500,502,503,504,529.

Responses

200application/json

idstring
The VectorAxis id (vxf-...) of the deleted file.
deletedboolean
true: the file was deleted at the provider and in VectorAxis.

VectorAxis is built by GK Labs, a member of NVIDIA Inception.